Director Stefano Sollima. Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell, Guy Pierce. 109 min. Action/Thriller.
- Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin in The Hunt for Red October, Harrison Ford in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman in The Sum of All Fears. Then we had Chris Pine in Shadow Recruit, and now Michael B. Jordan in the lead of Without Remorse. Movies based on the late Tom Clancy's techno-thrillers have attracted big names in the past, but recently the celebrity-attracting status of the novels seems to be dwindling.
- There's a mid-movie prison brawl. Michael B. Jordan prepares for the fight like a boxer. I suddenly remembered: "Oh, he was in Creed." We don't waste actors' skills from other movies, do we.
- Make sure you've watched the 1994 Clear and the Present Danger before this. There's an interesting origin story for John Clark here - played in that movie by Willem Dafoe.
- Wait for the post-credits scene - to watch the attempt to create an Avengers-like multi-movie world (in exactly the same manner we were promised in Iron Man's post-credits scene), based on Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six". What I couldn't understand, is why they started a presumed empire with such a dull movie, with such dull direction. Were they not sure? Then why try?
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